Re: OT earthquake

I was in Truckee many moons ago, up in the mountains, when all of a sudden it looked as though the land below had turned liquid. It was literally rolling like waves. Earthquakes are pretty cool, and the only real danger lies in the failure of man-made structures. IMO, of course.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :

]Man! I hope that was it. I like earthquakes, myself, but I didn't like that ]one. It scared the pee outta me! Epicenter -- not far from us. No wonder it ]was so loud. Magnitude 4.1.

6 km SE of Berkeley, CA (ID 40146204) Sep 4 2003 18:39:53 PDT 3.9

***HUGS*** darlin'!! the one that hit Redding was like that. felt like a truck hit the side of the building. that one was centered in the lava channels connecting the volcanos. not fun!

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Tink" :

]I was in Truckee many moons ago, up in the mountains, when all of a sudden ]it looked as though the land below had turned liquid. It was literally ]rolling like waves. Earthquakes are pretty cool, and the only real danger ]lies in the failure of man-made structures. IMO, of course.

my kid brother feels that way. "just like a roller-coaster. hang on and ride it out."

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Son of a gun! Glad you came through safely, even if it rattled you a bit.

Deirdre

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Christina Peterson" :

]I've never been in a LOUD earthquake. I hope there isn't broken stuff ]underground. Pipes? BART?

mom lives out in Concord. i called just to check and make sure. she said it "rolled" out there, and moved her rocking chair. brother across town didn't even feel it.

the determining factor is usually how deep it is. generally, the deeper, the better, as far as the surface is concerned.

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vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.compuppies (Dr. Sooz) :

]Yeah, but you can't build against a tornado!

no sh*t!!!

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Holy crap!

My cousin recently had an earthquake...in Atlanta! Weird, since they almost never get them.

((((((((((Sooz)))))))) That would freak me out too! Eeep!

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I'm like Sooz, prefer earthquakes over wind. Although the two quakes I've been through have only been small jolts, the biggest was a 5.5 (although it may have been 5.6, they took some time to figure it out)

Yes, she is. One with nothing of note to chase for the last three years. It's been strangely calm, weather-wise, of late.

Someday, I would love to go with you, Tink. Weather fascinates me, and I love to look at tornados.

I suppose in a city of earthquakes one that small would be forgotten fairly quickly. Just did a quick Google on the Newcastle quake, it was 5.6.

Not for me! I was born in CA. The quakes never bothered me. There was one in the early 70s when I lived in Duarte, CA then hit shortly after my alarm went off in the morning. I was still in bed and both my dobes came running in and jumped up on me in the bed. This was when swag lamps in the bedroom were popular. The 2 on either side of the bed were swinging back and forth and there's all this racket. I spent the whole thing trying to get the dogs off me. They were absolutely crushing me trying to get me to "save them". Then there was an aftershock at work that hit when I was in the shipping area and the doors were rattling and the floor was rolling. Cool! When I moved to the midwest, my intro was a tornado that went right over the house I was living in (no basement) and ripped the top out of the tree outside my baby's room and laid it down just outside the window by his crib.

Gimme earthquakes any day. Barbara Dream Master

"We've got two lives, one we're given, the other one we make." Mary Chapin Carpenter

Tornados are scary, but cool in a way. I just keep thinking it's only air and look at the destruction it's doing. I guess roller coaster, no destruction, types of earthquakes are fun.

Hey! We were almost neighbors then! I was in Monrovia. I thought one of the dogs had gotten under my bed at first, then I saw my floor to ceiling board & brick bookcase quivering, and I got up, ran over there and held it up.... Only a few books fell out, and nobody else in the house even woke up (except the dogs, who started howling). When my mother figure out that there really was an earthquake, she got upset that I had held up the bookcase.... Kaytee "Simplexities" on

I'm terrified of high winds, to an irrational degree, so I'd have to be in your camp. I'm constantly "checking" for earthquakes, though; for some reason I often feel something that feels just like a minor tremor, so I look up to see if anything's swaying. If it is, I know I it's not just me!

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from Kalera Stratton :

]I'm constantly "checking" for earthquakes, though; for ]some reason I often feel something that feels just like a minor tremor

'll tell you if that's what you're feeling.

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I often felt small earthquakes in Alaska that no one ever noticed. How did I know? Well I would either listen to the local news for earthquake monitoring or go to a BBS and check out if there was one. Most often there had been on and I was the only one around who felt it.

Cool, thanks!